Safety-shield for bottles, &amp;c.



PATENTBD OOI'JQ, 1906.

T. MAYHEW.

' SAFETY SHIELD FOR BOTTLES, 8w.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 26, 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THEOPHILUS MAYHEW, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN PROMOTING COMPANY, OF-DETROI'I, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF ARIZONA TERRITORY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 9, 1906.

Application filed March 26. 19 SBTiBl 307,983-

To an whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, THEOPHILUS MAYHEW,

a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety-Shields for Bottles, &c., of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in protecting shields or casings for vials, bottles, or other packages containing poison or other dangerous drugs, and has for its object to guard the person against the accidental taking of said drugs. at ni ht or other times by inclosing the bottle wit in an outer protecting-casing requiring a certain manipulation to get at the contents and at the same time provide visual means for showing at all times the height of contents within the bottle.

To this end the invention consists in the peculiar construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, all as hereinafter more fully described, and shown in the accompanyin drawings, in which *igure 1 is a rear elevation of my improved protecting-casing and showing the bottle in dotted lines in its elevated position. Fig. 2 is an end elevation, and Fig. 3 a plan View.

As shown in the drawings, A is the bottle; B, the rectangular open-ended shield or casing around the same, preferably integrally formed from a single sheet of metal and comprising the front panel O, upon which the usual poison-label is adapted to be applied; D, the end or side walls, and E the rear wall formed by bending the adjacent edges of'the sheet-metal blank at right angles to the end walls, so as to form a space F between for the reception of the finger in the manipulation of the bottle and at the same time form a visual indicator of the height of its contents.

G represents parallel slits cut inward from the upper and lower edges of the end panels to form ears H I, adapted to be bent inward to prevent the bottle from being slid out of the shield or casing, the ears H being preferably bent at an angle to conform to the shoulder of the bottle and the ears I at right angles.

Having thus fully described my invention, it will be seen that inuse it is necessary for the operator to slide the bottle partially out of the casing, and inso doing it is a constant reminder to the operator of its contents, besides which in the dark in taking hold of the package the rectangular form will give due warning, its form being such as not to interfere with the easy wrapping of the package.

What I claim as my invention is 1. A shield or protector for bottles comprising a rectangular sheet-metal casing integrally formed of a single piece and provided with inwardly bent stops or shoulders at its opposite ends.

2. A shield or protector for bottles and the like comprising a sheet-1netal casing integrally formed from a single piece partially inclosing the same to form a visual indicator in said casing, and inwardly-bent stops at its opposite ends.

3. A shield or protector for bottles and the like comprising a rectangular sheet-metal casing partially open at its back, a bottle free to slide in said casing and stops to limit the movement of said bottle.

4. In a device of the character described, the combination with the bottle, of a casing partially inclosing the same and open at its 

